Latin America and the Caribbean, 16 November 2021

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Nobel Prize Dialogue

Elizabeth Blackburn

Nobel Prize laureate

Elizabeth Blackburn is Professor Emerita in Biochemistry and Biophysics. She has been a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research and was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in this area.

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Fraser Stoddart

Nobel Prize laureate

Ben Feringa’s research interests include organic chemistry, nanotechnology and asymmetric catalysis. He received the Nobel Prize for his work on molecular machines.

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Nobel Prize laureate

Saul Perlmutter shared the physics prize for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

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Juleen Zierath

Juleen Zierath is professor of clinical integrative physiology at Karolinska lnstitutet. Her research has revealed key steps in insulin signaling pathways that are impaired in diabetic patients.

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